Bowdoin News: Economist John Fitzgerald Addresses Income Inequality; Iconoclasm and the Power of Images

John Fitzgerald, Bowdoin’s William D. Shipman Professor of Economics, joined a discussion on Maine Public Radio’s Maine Calling to speak about the growing problem of income inequality, its causes, and possible solutions.

Fitzgerald, along with Robyn Merrill of Maine Equal Justice Partners, spoke with Chuck Collins, author of Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home and Committing for the Common Good.Listen to the discussion.

The destruction of the ancient city of Palmyra by the Islamic State and the dynamiting of the giant Bamiyan buddhas by the Taliban have shocked and horrified the world. Yet these acts of contemporary vandalism of artworks by today’s religious fantastic are only the latest episode in a millennia-long struggle to control images. Five professors discuss art desecration by fanatics in Bowdoin News.

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